



With a hard limit of 100 Pikmin available at a time, your surplus plant people reside within the safety of the protective Onion until they are called upon. You can replenish their ranks by discovering new wild patches of Pikmin or by returning to the Pikmin Onion parked next to your ship, the S.S. You will inevitably lose some of your little soldiers, and it will always hurt. The catch, of course, is that even the hardiest of Pikmin is no match for the super-sized Amprats, Bulborbs, and other enemies that prowl PNF-404. You can likewise fling your other party members, who, in turn, can take command of their own sub-groups of Pikmin, switching control between your strike forces on the fly using the Y button and D-pad. Rock Pikmin are strong and durable, and the pink Winged Pikmin… well, they have wings.Īs Alph, Brittany, and Charlie, utilizing these highly specialized Pikmin is as easy as cycling through the individual color groups using the Switch’s shoulder buttons, then throwing them at the enemy, obstacle, or item in question using A. Yellow Pikmin can conduct electricity, are particularly light, and can dig faster than their other-hued brethren. Red Pikmin are fire resistance while blue Pikmin are aquatic. Highly evolved and eager to serve, Pikmin come in a variety of colors, each possessing special powers to help overcome various environmental obstacles. While the original mission remains to locate food resources to relieve a famine back home on Koppai, the player’s first order of business becomes reuniting these three tiny astronauts. In the tradition of all great space odysseys, Pikmin 3: Deluxe begins with a crash landing that scatters crew members Alph, Brittany, and Captain Charlie across the various climes of planet PNF-404. While the first Pikmin title put us in control of planet Hocotate’s Captain Olimar, and its sequel, Pikmin 2, partnered him with fellow Hocotate Freight employee Louie, Pikmin 3 instead tells the story of a trio of intrepid explorers from its fruit-loving neighbor Koppai. U, and, most recently, Pikmin 3 are top-shelf selections they’re games that my family remembers fondly, but often in only broad strokes, the finer details lost to the haze of years past. Titles like Mario Kart 8, New Super Mario Bros. Though it can be a little difficult to get excited about one-generation-removed ports, Nintendo has a knack for picking just the right games to revisit at just the right times. Owning a Nintendo Switch after owning a Wii U is sort of like being stuck in a time warp-in the best way imaginable.
